Pasqualoni won't resign, at least not until the end of the season. And UConn won't fire him, again at least until the end of the season. if I had to guess, I would guess that he will be offered a 3rd year with changes to the coaching staff. Nobody has really discussed it, but the fact that UConn has retained most of the Edsall staff was never a logical thing to me. Most of the time when a head coach comes in he brings a complete change, retaining maybe 1 or two guys from the old staff but that's it. It was strange the way UConn did it.
I'm just going to put pre-emptive warning up here, that this is all from foggy memory, and could be all completely wrong....
but with that said, I think it was Hathaway's use of the calendar year, rather than the academic year for structuring coaching contracts - that is the issue as to why Pasqualoni retained every single coach that didn't voluntarily leave on their own, and it won't be until Jan. 1, 2013, that Manuel will have a chance to correct that.
I don't recall specifics, but along with his many failures as AD, Hathaway put together a contract structure for assistant football coaches and the head coach too (Edsall) that ran by calendar year, rather than academic year. (Jan. 1-Dec. 31 rather than July 1-June30). This is not compeltely unheard of, but doesn't make much sense. Academic calendars run July 1 - June 30, teaching contracts,coaches, nearly every other university employee contract, in most places I'm aware of - run on an academic year basis, not calendar year. Payrolls are assembled based on the academic year, not the jan. 1- Jan. 1 calendar years....etc.
Because Hathaway had the contracts running from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, i recall it always a pain in the ass for Edsall, because he had to make sure his assistant contracts were in place and going to be renewed, in the middle of the prime recruiting season of the year. Also, by waiting until Jan. 1, 2011 to notify Hathaway, of his intention to interview for another job, and I don't think he had signed his renewal yet, Edsall technically did nothing wrong contractually. He was technically free to interview and take another job as he pleased, the day BEFORE the Fiesta Bowl, and that's what he did.
I don't know what was going on with the assistant contracts during those hectic few weeks in January 2011, but I do know it's highly, highly unusual for a head coach to come in and essentially retain every one of the assistants, that didn't voluntarily leave for other jobs, at that time. Joe Moorhead, left in December 2011, shortly before a jan.1-jan.1 contract would have expired/been renewed, and the other guys that left with edsall, probably never renewed contracts with Hathaway, or were released from them, becuase if they did sign, it was a matter of hours literally, that what they had signed had been in effect, before the world got turned upside down, and the ones that stayed, had brand new contracts....messy, messy situation.
I don't know the contractual actual dates/length of pasqualoni's contract, but I'm pretty sure that Warde Manuel, is going to look at those coaching contracts and get them adjusted to the academice year, rather than the calendar year. Since Warde wasn't official hired until february 2012, it's entirely likely that coaching contracts were simply automatically renewed as of jan.1, 2012, and run through jan. 1, 2013, and at that point, is when Manueal will have his first chance to try to get the coaching contracts matched up with the academic calendar.
All of this, is internet message board speculation, based on my foggy memory.
